In the last post I lauded CBS for their cunningly clever purchase of last.fm. I think it’s an extremely wise move, and speaks volumes about the intelligence behind their Internet strategy.
Now, in the other corner, The Register UK reports on eBay’s purchase of StumbleUpon: “eBay makes another baffling buy”. Joining the Skype acquisition [...]

TechCrunch reports that last.fm has just been bought by CBS for $280 million.
The article’s comments include the usual warnings about frothiness. However, I’d say the price is cheap and rather justified considering the time, efforts, and most importantly, the breadth of what last.fm offers… it’s rather unique out there as a music-taste social network.
Personally? [...]

In the middle of this last week, my trusty Dashboard Widget which allowed for real-time updates from Yahoo! Traffic’s RSS feed… ceased to function.
Subsequent searches on the Internet have yielded absolutely no word on why this should be the case.
Why has this happened, and why is it so quiet? Looking for the widget on [...]

Now, anyone that knows me knows that I will have a penchant for dropping into wild flights of apocalyptic abandon. Then, I reason myself out of it. Luckily, I also fly into wild flights of r/evolutionary optimism. The point is, I tend to hold strong opinions lightly, as the saying [...]

One side-effect of my exposure to Ustream in the last week (although I see something even more intriguing called kyte.tv on the horizon; more about that later) was the obvious thought:
—Gee, if I can do live web-casting, what about just doing video resumes for the job search? Such a clever thought!
Well, that was yesterday. [...]